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Truth must be told-and things must change! If words are not about real things and do not cause things to happen, what is the good of them?
The time has come when scientific truth must cease to be the property of the few, when it must be woven into the common life of the world.
Truth only needs to be for once spoken out; and there's such music in her, such strange rhythm, as makes men's memories her joyous slaves.
Perhaps it is how we are made; perhaps words of truth reach us best through the heart, and stories and songs are the language of the heart
Just because something is typed-whether it is typed on a business card or typed in a newspaper or book-this does not mean that it is true.
It needs time. Nobody wants to hear it, but that's the truth: if you want to have success in the future, you have to be ready to work now.
There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.
There are more facts and more truths told in the first eight minutes of The Daily Show than most political news conferences in Washington.
The truth does not require a majority to prevail, ladies and gentlemen. The truth is its own power. The truth will out. Never forget that.
Truth quenches untruth, love quenches anger, self-suffering quenches violence. This eternal rule is a rule not for saints only but for all.
In a free society, there comes a time when the truth - however hard it may be to hear, however impolitic it may seem to say - must be told.
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
Science, my lad, is made up of mistakes, but they are mistakes which it is useful to make, because they lead little by little to the truth.
Like the sand and the oyster, it's a creative irritant. In each poem, I'm trying to reveal a truth, so it can't have a fictional beginning.
The blessed and inviting truth is that God is the most winsome of all beings and in our worship of Him we should find unspeakable pleasure.
I believe there's an inner power that makes winners or losers. And the winners are the ones who really listen to the truth of their hearts.
If I had a device, it would be the true, the true only, leaving the beautiful and the good to settle matters afterwards as best they could.
It is a universal truth that the loss of liberty at home is to be charged to the provisions against danger, real or pretended, from abroad.
New constellations of truth are daily discovered in the firmament of knowledge, and new stars are daily shining forth in each constellation.
It is not the possession of truth, but the success which attends the seeking after it, that enriches the seeker and brings happiness to him.
All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident.
When the dictators and the opportunists are gone, the cross will still stand before us and something in us will say, That is the real thing.
A great man does not seek applause or place; he seeks for truth; he seeks the road to happiness, and what he ascertains, he gives to others.
I am not at all concerned with appearing to be consistent. In my pursuit after Truth I have discarded many ideas and learnt many new things.
It seems a fantastic paradox, but it is nevertheless a most important truth, that no architecture can be truly noble which is not imperfect.
What has appealed to me most in Tolstoy's life is that he practiced what he preached and reckoned no cost too great in his pursuit of truth.
I want people to see the truth... regardless of who they are... because without information, you cannot make informed decisions as a public.
My own luck has been curious all my literary life; I never could tell a lie that anyone would doubt, nor a truth that anybody would believe.
There are trivial truths and the great truths. The opposite of a trivial truth is plainly false. The opposite of a great truth is also true.
What shames us, what we most fear to tell, does not set us apart from others; it binds us together if only we can take the risk to speak it.
Every newly discovered truth judges the world, separates the good from the evil, and calls on faithful souls to make sure of their election.
Prudent is he who can keep silent that part of truth which may be untimely, and by not speaking it, does not spoil the truth of what he said.
In order to properly understand the big picture, everyone should fear becoming mentally clouded and obsessed with one small section of truth.
No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.
The resurrection of Jesus Christ was necessary to establish the truth of his mission and put the stamp of all-conquering power on his gospel.
Servant of God, well done! well hast thou fought The better fight, who single hast maintain'd Against revolted multitudes the cause of truth.
You recognize the truth because sometimes it's hard to swallow, but if you hold it in your mouth, refusing to eat it, you are going to choke.
Truth is a torch, but a huge one, and so it is only with blinking eyes what we all of us try to get past it, in actual terror of being burnt.
Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.
Thy actions to thy words accord; thy words To thy large heart give utterance due; thy heart; Contains of good, wise, just, the perfect shape.
Stand upright, speak thy thoughts, declare The truth thou hast, that all may share; Be bold, proclaim it everywhere: They only live who dare.
The absolute truth cannot be realized within the domain of the ordinary mind, and the path beyond the ordinary mind is the path of the heart.
The truth is, bad things don't affect us as profoundly as we expect them to. That's true of good things, too. We adapt very quickly to either.
Whatever is almost true is quite false, and among the most dangerous of errors, because being so near truth, it is more likely to lead astray.
The simple truth is that balding African-American men look cool when they shave their heads, whereas balding white men look like giant thumbs.
The attempts to distort the truth and to hide the facts behind blanket accusations have been undertaken at all stages of the Ukrainian crisis.
I only desire sincere relations with the worthiest of my acquaintance, that they may give me an opportunity once in a year to speak the truth.
The belief that there is only one truth and that oneself is in possession of it seems to me the deepest root of all evil that is in the world.
What is more true than anything else? To swim is true and to sink is true. One cannot speak any more of being, one must speak onlyof the mess.
There is not a woman in the world the possession of whom is as precious as that of the truths which she reveals to us by causing us to suffer.